Effective difference between Type VII B/C/C-41?

[XIII]

Was quite nice to hear were getting more sub variants with the release!

What do you think will be the meaningful differences between the new Type VII variants?

[SpaceBikerV]

Probably speed and armor. I don’t expect significant visual differences

[XIII]

Yeh I assume theyre gonna be very similar. Would be curious if people know/can think of interesting differences tho :D

[captainpanda34]

C-41 could dive deeper as far as i remember

[wolf310ii]

Its mainly the range, the C had bigger fuel oil bunker than the B and the 41 was lighter and had an optimized hull.

[athenian]

Good information on all VII types is provided by https://www.uboat.net/types/

[XIII]

Originally posted by athenian:

Good information on all VII types is provided by https://www.uboat.net/types/

Thx!

Originally posted by wolf310ii:

Its mainly the range, the C had bigger fuel oil bunker than the B and the 41 was lighter and had an optimized hull.

Yeh thats most of what I found. Seems like the B didnt have the depths sonar.

[athenian]

Most welcome

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by athenian:

Good information on all VII types is provided by https://www.uboat.net/types/

Well....while I have used this site before - I will point out that whoever wrote that has 0 sources listed. So for all I know these guys might have just listed up some numbers they found online on some forum.

[athenian]

Originally posted by athenian:

A link to 'Some of Our Sources' part of the website https://www.uboat.net/about/sources.htm

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by athenian:

Originally posted by athenian:

A link to 'Some of Our Sources' part of the website https://www.uboat.net/about/sources.htm

Saw that but good luck trying figuring out where the info comes from. Half the time I check background sources, I find that writers omitted key information at best or misunderstood what they were reading.

To take an example: On that page they list "maximum depth at 220 meter" for VIIC - is that maximum operating depth (likely to be in official documentation) or estimated crash depth?

Because maximum operating depth was listed substantially less than what they list there
Source (page 14):
https://www.uboatarchive.net/Manual/Manual.htm

Another thing I would be interested in is diving speed - while something that is unique for each submarine I would guess that VIIC would be superior to VIIB.

NOTE that I am not claiming that technical stuff on that webpage is made up or erroneous. I just don't think it should be taken as gospel.

[s0d0]

Originally posted by Ziggurt:

Originally posted by athenian:

Saw that but good luck trying figuring out where the info comes from. Half the time I check background sources, I find that writers omitted key information at best or misunderstood what they were reading.

To take an example: On that page they list "maximum depth at 220 meter" for VIIC - is that maximum operating depth (likely to be in official documentation) or estimated crash depth?

Because maximum operating depth was listed substantially less than what they list there
Source (page 14):
https://www.uboatarchive.net/Manual/Manual.htm

Another thing I would be interested in is diving speed - while something that is unique for each submarine I would guess that VIIC would be superior to VIIB.

NOTE that I am not claiming that technical stuff on that webpage is made up or erroneous. I just don't think it should be taken as gospel.

It's the most accurate data you'll get.

[Obiwan]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

Probably speed and armor. I don’t expect significant visual differences

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